#FailedState #OneCountryTwoSystems #Article22
Beijing Validates Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office as Chinese Communist Party's Mouthpiece

The Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the PRC's State Council made a statement yesterday, criticizing "black-clad rioters" and the idea of "burning together" as "political virus" to Hong Kong.

[Editor's note:
The image from Stand News originally came with the following description:
"On February 13, 2020, Chief Executive Carrie Lam welcomes Xia Baolong to head both the HKMAO and the Liaison office, claiming that Central Government is paying closer attention to HK affairs".]

Source: RTHK #May7
Image: Stand News

#FailedState #Article22 #OneCountryTwoSystems
Beijing Validates Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office as Chinese Communist Party's Mouthpiece

The Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the PRC's State Council made a statement yesterday, criticizing "black-clad rioters" and the idea of "burning together" as "political virus" to Hong Kong.

Since last June, the office has been extremely critical of the protestors, claiming that have been challenging the "one country, two systems", ignoring the rule of law, and destroying the social order.

The Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau said that the Affairs Office is authorized by China to handle the affairs in Hong Kong. The Office is granted the power and responsibility to comment on behalf of the Chinese government on any crucial affairs including the relationship between China and HKSAR, the proper application of the Basic Law, and the operation of the form of government. Any act resulting in the disruption of the social order and security is strongly criticised.

The Affairs Office also indicated that HKSAR has the responsibility to pass the Article 23 to safeguard national security. Anyone who violates the Basic Law and the constitution, attempts to distort the nation, or causes a threat to national security, is to be punished based on the existing laws in Hong Kong.

Source: RTHK #May7
Image: Stand News

Police 'Drug Stash' Controversy Now a Point of Ridicule for Hong Kongers

1508 | Tsim Sha Tsui #TST
In Harbour City, a citizen unfurled a banner that writes:
"No need to OT for cash,
You'd make more from your drug stash!"
(translated)

Editor's Note: Several police officers were arrested on #May7 due to stealing and hiding 25 kilograms of methamphetamine confiscated from a drug bust.

Picture Credits: Apple Daily #May10

#Death
4 'Non-suspicious' Deaths in One Day, According to the Police

Four people jumped to their deaths on Thursday May 7, all of which were declared non-suspicious by the police.

At three in the afternoon, a 38-year-old woman surnamed Lau fell off of a footbridge adjacent to On Tai Estate Yung Tai House. The police found no suicide note on-site. They suspect that Lam fell out of a stairwell from above.

At five in the afternoon, an 11-year-old girl fell from her apartment in Tak Long Estate Tak Pui House. The police found a suicide note on-site.

At nine in the evening, a 73-year-old man surnamed Shing fell from a village house in Mang Kung Uk Wat Sum Village. Police suspected that Shing accidentally fell to his death while cleaning the roof.

Meanwhile, at roughly the same time, a 58-year-old man surnamed Chung fell from a high place in Kwai Shing East Estate Shing On House. The police found no suicide note on-site. They suspected that Chung fell from a corridor above.

Source: Oncc; Headline Daily #May7 #Suicide

#PoliceState #ArbitraryArrests
Man Accused of Possessing Poison Has Prosecution Withdrawn, Jeremy Tam Censures Police Arbitrary Arrests

After protestors occupied the Legislative Council building on July 1 last year, police officers intercepted multiple vans near Sun Yat Sen Memorial Park, and arrested a van driver for "Possession of Part I Poison" and "Possession of Instrument Fit for Unlawful Purpose".

Legislative Councillor Jeremy Tam Man-ho, who assisted the arrested driver, said that the driver was only found with asthma medication, stating that he "would have believed that this was some Golden Triangle drug smuggling case if one was not informed about it".

After he was notified that the driver had his prosecution withdrawn due to lack of evidence, Tam censured the police for conducting indiscriminate and arbitrary arrests, stating that the police "often frame Hongkongers", and noted the irony of the officers from the Regional Anti-Triad Unit, whose possession of methamphetamine made headlines in early May. He remarked, "The true drug smugglers may be the Regional Anti-Triad Unit who claims to be 'Serving Hong Kong with Honour, Duty and Loyalty'".

Source: Stand News
#May7 #July1 #LegCo #AsthmaDrugs #Poison #JeremyTam

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Hong Kong Police Officers Arrested in Drug Case
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/20572

#DistrictCouncil
District Councilors Host Media Reception in Chair's Office, Only to be Banned by Home Affairs Department

The Kwai Tsing District Council is set to convene a meeting on 12 May, during which the pro-Democracy camp will pass a declaration expressing strong condemnation towards the cutting of the district council's budget by the Home Affairs Department.

Vice chair of the Kwai Tsing District Council Cheung Man Lung stated that chair Sin Chung-kai had received a note on Wednesday (#May6) from the district officer stating that Sin could not host the media reception in his office, further adding that he would report to the police if there were a gathering of more than four people, violating the social distancing ban.

Kenneth Cheng, district officer of the Kwai Tsing district suggested that the chair's office could be used for the media reception since it is considered a political declaration. The pro-democracy camp then changed the location of the media reception from the Kwai Hing Government Offices to councilor Ng Kim Sing's office, located in Kwai Fong Estate.

Police officers from the Kwai Tsing Police Public Relations Branch entered the chair's office on Thursday morning (#May7) to "understand the situation". Home Affairs Department employees also ripped away press notices posted by pro-democracy councilors, claiming that the information stated on the notices was not accurate. Cheung stated that the Home Affairs Department would only try harder to suppress the district council, and criticized the actions as idiotic and ridiculous.

Source: Inmedia #May7
#KwaiTsing #GovernmentSuppresion

#May7 #FirstHand #Video
"This is a Hong Kong I'm not familiar with": #Chickeeduck Owner Recounts Police Raid on Newly-Opened Branch

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#May7 #FirstHand #Video
"This is a Hong Kong I'm not familiar with": #Chickeeduck Owner Recounts Police Raid on Newly-Opened Branch

After national security police raided #Chickeeduck 's new Tsuen Wan branch on May 6, 2021, store owner #HerbertChow recounted the ordeal in English to reporters at the store.

About 30 officers entered the premises with a search warrant, he said, claiming that the store may have products that violated the National Security Law.

Although the police only searched for products, all store staff were detained and not allowed to leave, even at Chow's request.

Many customers left the store when the police began surrounding and cordoning off the shop, and police took down the ID card numbers of the customers before letting them go.

Chow and four other employees remained in the store as the policemen conducted their search for about an hour, opening bags and carton boxes. The police found nothing. However, one senior officer told Chow that although the police were not confiscating any evidence, the investigation was not finished.

He gave Chow a verbal warning: "In the future, if you violate the National Security Law, we will prosecute you."

When Chow asked him whether he had violated any law, the officer only answered, "We have no responsibility to answer your question." "I just want to know whether I can continue business," Chow said.

Watch video:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/29618

Since the police did not remove any questionable items, he reasoned, everything in the store could be assumed to be legal, and the store could continue to open for business. "So have I violated any law?" Chow asked, "Should I continue, or should I take away some stuff?" The officer only said again that they were not obliged to answer.

"So this is Hong Kong," said a flabbergasted Chow. "The national security department is so powerful, they can come in, interrupt your business for one hour, take your customers' ID card numbers, and they don't have to explain.“

"This is a Hong Kong I'm not familiar with. I've been living here for 57 years; this is the first time I've experienced this."

Chow is resolute in continuing his business despite the harassment, though his view of the police force is quickly dimming.

"I used to tell youngsters that there are good people in the police force. I'm changing [my stance]."

#YellowEconomy #PoliticalSuppression #NationalSecurityLaw

#PoliticalSuppression #Censorship
More Hong Kong Teachers Resign, as #WhiteTerror Sweeps Campuses

Source: Apple Daily #May7

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Former Turkish PM joins Netizens in Condemning China for Suppressing the #Ugyhurs

Source: RFA #May7

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#HumanitarianCrisis
Former Turkish PM joins Netizens in Condemning China for Suppressing the #Ugyhurs

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between #Turkey and the #PRC, the #ChineseEmbassy in Turkey co-organised a drawing competition with the Ministry of National Education, Turkey for Turkish youth, titled “China in My Dreams.”

Taking note of the event, many netizens uploaded pictures of Uyghur genocide with the hashtag #hayalimdekiçin (“China in My Dreams”), among which even include former Prime Minister #AhmetDavutoğlu.

These works include blue-shirted men sitting under the iron curtains of #Xinjiang concentration camps; a #Uyghur little girl silenced by men covered in a Five-starred red flag and a bloodied East Turkestan flag; a lonely boy crying on #EidMubarak as his family was locked up in the #Gulags.

Long-time friend of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and former Prime Minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, also uploaded a picture on Twitter.

He writes, “The Education Ministry is organising a painting competition titled “China in My Dreams” for our kids. Our dream is East Turkistan. Dear children, picture the dream of saving our brothers and sisters in our fatherland from oppression and send that to this competition. Speak up to those who doesn’t wish to hear!”

#UyghurGenocide
#hayalimdekiçin

Source: RFA #May7

https://www.facebook.com/cantonese.rfa/photos/a.454006908007166/5435573129850494/

#Report #ChinaDream
China Is Building Entire Villages in Another Country’s Territory

Source: Foreigh Policy #May7

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#Report #ChinaDream
China Is Building Entire Villages in Another Country’s Territory

By Robert Barnett

//In October 2015, China announced that a new village, called Gyalaphug in Tibetan or Jieluobu in Chinese, had been established in the south of the #Tibet Autonomous Region (#TAR)...

#Gyalaphug is, however, different: It is in #Bhutan. Wu and a retinue of officials, police, and journalists had crossed an international border. They were in a 232-square-mile area claimed by China since the early 1980s but internationally understood as part of Lhuntse district in northern Bhutan. The Chinese officials were visiting to celebrate their success, unnoticed by the world, in planting settlers, security personnel, and military infrastructure within territory internationally and historically understood to be Bhutanese...

This new construction is part of a major drive by Chinese President #XiJinPing since 2017 to fortify the Tibetan borderlands, a dramatic escalation in China’s long-running efforts to outmaneuver India and its neighbors along their Himalayan frontiers. In this case, China doesn’t need the land it is settling in Bhutan: Its aim is to force the Bhutanese government to cede territory that China wants elsewhere in Bhutan to give Beijing a military advantage in its struggle with New Delhi.

Gyalaphug is now one of three new villages (two already occupied, one under construction), 66 miles of new roads, a small hydropower station, two Communist Party administrative centers, a communications base, a disaster relief warehouse, five military or police outposts, and what are believed to be a major signals tower, a satellite receiving station, a military base, and up to six security sites and outposts that China has constructed in what it says are parts of Lhodrak in the TAR but which in fact are in the far north of Bhutan....

Today all of the Menchuma Valley and most of the Beyul are controlled by China. Both are being settled. Together, they constitute 1 percent of Bhutan’s territory; if it were to lose them, it would be comparable to the United States losing Maine or Kentucky...

In Chinese, the term for so-called salami-slicing tactics—slowly cutting off  piece by piece of other nations’ territory—is can shi, or “nibbling like a silkworm.” It’s serious business: The belief that India was gnawing at fragments of China’s territory drove Mao to launch the 1962 Sino-Indian War. And the converse of the phrase is jing tun, “swallowing like a whale.” The small bites of the silkworm can turn into crushing jaws...//

Read the full reportage:
http://foreignpolicy.com/2021/05/07/china-bhutan-border-villages-security-forces/

Source: Foreigh Policy #May7

#Invasion #Tianxia #AllUnderHeaven #Beijing #Expansion #CCPRules #Bhutan #PeacefulRise #CanShi #Borders